SUN BEAU’S BANKROLL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 8 December 1931, Page 11

SUN BEAU’S BANKROLL

EABNH HIM RETIREMENT. Sun Beau wrapped twenty thousand dollars more around his record-breaking bankroll when he won the Hawthorne Gold Cup at the Hawthorne Meeting, Chicago, on October 8, by a length and a halt from Mate. In five years’ campaigning he has amassed 376,744 dollars (approximately £75,000), and his total will probably stand at this sum, for it was stated after his Hawthorne Cup victory (his third in succession in the race) that ho was to be placed in retirement and that never again would his hoofs pound a racecourse. Sun Beau started seventy-four times in all, scoring in thirty-three of his races. In winning his third Hawthorne Cup, he equalled the performance of Exterminator, who had also notched three successive victories in the event. All his racing was done in the green and orange liverv of Mr. W. S. Kilmer. He set the climax to his marvellous career at Hawthorne by running the mile and a quarter in 2min. 0 l-ssee. Mate, Mr. A. C. Bostwick’s crack three-year-old, regarded as the technical three-vear-old champion of 1931 because of two victories over Twenty Grand, was Sun Beau’s chief threat at Hawthorne. Mato went to the post favourite, with Sun Beau as second choice at slightly longer odds. Sun Beau definitely asserted superiority, and fully deserves to be classed as the greatest handicap performer the world has ever known. It is a remarkable feature about his record that his racing has all been in handicaps and that he has not had a single classic plum to swell his kit.